How do you manage such a high polycount in blender? And do you use any plugins for getting your Zbrush scene into blender? Im working on quite a capable machine but my setup really starts to suffer once I go beyond 15mil Polys. Love your work! Great Timelapse!

Awesome

What brushes do you use? Like for the raised edges and insets

Excellent work! Do you have any specific tutorials where you go through various hard surface workflows and tips you've used throughout the video? Thank you

back in the groove. thats what im talking about myyy maaan

I liked this model so much and I was looking forward the HS modelling process in ZB, thanks for uploading it!

Excellent work as usual. Good stuff man.

Polypaint to polygroups then polish by pg looks neat. Good for a quick retopo👌

Renders on Artstation: www.artstation.com/artwork/8B1kLR

it's a must have!!!!

UE Lighting artist here :) Love your work man this is a sweet model. In general, lights will always look better than HDRs in unreal as they have more control than the skylight. I use the skylight as a nice baseline, to build a lighting setup on top. Doesnt have to be too fancy. If you want to use HDRs only, your best using pathtracer, because it accurately calculates the HDR as opposed to the skylight which roughly estimates :D Skylight is a bit fiddly when compared to a HDRIs in other programs. You will want high resolution numbers, which if running realtime would be a performance hit but because your are rendering out with sequencer/render queue you should be fine to pump that up to the actual resolution of the HDR youre using. Also play around with the indirect lighting intensity on your skylight and other lights. With the way you are using your lighting setups, if you need different ones per camera, you might be better off making lighting sublevels and using the level visibility tracks in sequencer show which are hidden or visible for each camera. This is heaps quicker/easier than individually animating/keying the transforms of each light. The shimmering/noise is likely lumen having a hard time in low light with no environment. As UE is designed primarily for games, a lot of the default settings targeting general use. In your post process volume you can increase the lumen quality. Play with increasing the Ray lighting mode (Hit lighting for reflections), scene lighting quality, final gather quality. You will just have to fiddle with different values, wrangling lumen is an art :') There are heeeaaaaps of console commands which will increase the quality of your viewport and renders. Happy to list what I use for cinematic trailers, but ill give you one or two here which might make your viewport a little nicer. r.Tonemapper.Sharpen 1 r.ScreenPercentage 120 (Increases the resolution within the bounds of the camera resolution so 1920x1080 x 1.2) hope some of this helps!

Well, probably I also stucked with this. I dont really like the quality of Unreal, compared with Toolbag ( Raster ). There's something approximated with built-in shaders or lighting when it comes to closer look. I can't get shadows via translucency hair material, because RT shadows doesn't work with this. It forced using cheap alpha test. Volumetric shadow casting also doesn't work with RT and a bunch of limitations. Texture compression, sometimes I can even see those "jpeg" pixels on my characters. Final render is awfully ghosting and flickering cuz of Temporal AA, Denoisers and Final Gathering, even increased settings doesn't solve this. Have no any problem in Toolbag since the third version. Even on this old build we can get dithered alpha for hair card materials with some nice alpha & shadow casting, without another one engine tweaks or nodes pasta So... I decided to drop UE, for me it doesn't feel like the time saver, more like searching the solutions of the problems. More faster way is render in Toolbag or offline renders, maybe Arnold / Cycles with OID denoiser

lighting and post process effects will fix alot of your issues , i wouldnt suggest usiing just a sky light as your own source

I remember there is a button "Take high resolution screenshot" IDK if it would work with PT tho

I use Marmoset myself, but I bet you could get some good results with cycles.

My work asked me to do a test run with Unreal, as they were considering incorporating it into our creative team. I found it more of a struggle than a time-saver. The long shader compilation times were frustrating, and I realized I was relying heavily on the path tracer for renders, which defeated the purpose of real-time rendering. In the end, we decided to stick with Blender and render in Cycles-no reason to complicate things.Great video, love the model.

"hello concentration span depraved human, wait for the video I need chocolate sustenance" lovely

i wonder.. have you thought about mentoring?

Unreal kind of is "marketing hype" in some regards in my opinion. Well, at least as a Game Dev; it's probably much better for Art and Hollywood projects that don't have to run smooth and have gameplay. But even then things like Lumen and Nanite are very finnicky and have some ugly results sometimes (and god help u if you try to make a combination of Lumen and TSR not ghost and shimmer in a game project you will need it). Just a lot of features that are like "It looks and works like magic!!....under these specific circumstances, also we will conveniently leave the caveats out of the Promos"

For easier Render Movie Queue - make a Level Sequencer, drop all your stuff from the level there and set the keyframes for visibility. That way you can control your cameras and setup lighting for each shot with ease. Afaik there's no plug-in that does it, but I've always done static renders this way. Oh and just a tip - make 1-2 buffer frames before actual shots. In my experience it always takes some frames to warm up and produce quality renders. Might my PC's skill issue tho idk :D

Hold down alt and you can pivot

Also, why does HDRI lighting look fugly?

Skillz. Whats the reason for cancelling the extrude before scaling along normals each time?

A masterpiece, mind you asking how to record such time-lapse videos ?

any chance you could do a tutorial series for people that want to switch to blender?

Your a legend ! thank you !

Please update to latest Blender version.

I'm getting an error when doing Curve > Wire Generator. Everything else works.

0:15 that "....hello?" sounds sooo adorable, like he's shyly popping out of the door frame hoping we allow him to step in. anyways great tutorial thank you!!

I agree, this would be nice to have in Blender. The cool thing is all we need is someone to implement it... As it's very doable.

Take what you miss and show Alexey who is making Modeler for houdini

Same as soft selection in Maya?

Geonode tools can help with this, and you'll be able to set a falloff you need too. Also if you hide all except for the faces to scale, you can use proportional editing. The trapezoid example is even more trivial - loop tools. You move only the bottom vertices closer and then apply gstretch. Know the tool first, these things (except geonode initial setup) are a few clicks away.

Topology Pen Tool, Rounded Edge Shader and the sexy UI

What about proportional editing? With correct placement of the 3D cursor and masking the vertices you don’t want to affect you could get something close, I think…

😭😭😭Also learning blender, but there are a lot of stuff I miss. hope Modo will last teh 10 years they ae saying.

Cinema 4D has a extremely powerful "Fields" structure which is what you describe. You can do even noise fields, or audio, or mix them together and change vertex colors with it and much more.

Geo nodes with extrude 0+ scale elements with scale=area sample by face index

not to say blender is better but for the first example: wouldnt it be possible to create a shape key where the holes are big and have the shape keys value be dictated by a driver thats calculating the distance or even do some geo nodes magic?

MODO is the best modelling tool I have tried. Blender is amazing at many things, but the modelling workflow in MODO was incredibly well thought out.

I tried geonoding this into existence, but it's not there yet. Geonodes gizmos aren't supported as tools yet, for what I understand, but that will probably be coming up real soon.

Yes, modo's falloffs are really powerful. Miss them so much... Especially when it comes to creating a bevel with various radius. Regarding your example at 2:28 - it's possible to do it in Blender. Steps: 1. hide everything but the selection 2. Select 5 edges at the border 3. Scale these 5 edges using proportional editing. I can record a short vid (let me know if you need it). There is also some sort of analog for falloffs - Mira tools addon (free)

Good software, pity it's out of service now... Would have been great if they opensourced some of the stuff to be integrated to blender.

loved Modo :/ Been using Max, May, Blender and Modo throughout the years, and Modo was by far the most underrated and effective of em all.

Maybe now that we have a 10 year license for MODO and everyone can use it you could make some tutorials, just because it's fun to model in MODO.

Maybe someone can write a addon for the falloff ?

DAYYYYMN man, I really need this in Blender, can't someone write this? I'd gladly pay for this functionality!

yes the falloff of modo was great and I miss it a lot when modeling but perhaps one day with an addon ?